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In the first seven books Augustine searches the scriptures for clues to understanding the Trinity and then defends the orthodox statement of the doctrine against the Arians. In the last eight books Augustine seeks to understand the mystery of the divine Trinity by observing an analogous trinity in the image of God, which is the human mind; and in so doing, he also suggests a program for the...

a nature consubstantial and co-eternal with itself; or at least, if anyone does argue for a view held by some,39 that in the words the Son himself shall also be made subject to the one who subjected all things to him this subjection must be taken to mean a future change or conversion of creature into the very substance or essence of creator, that is, that what had been the substance of a creature, is to become the substance of the creator; at least he will surely grant this, something there can be
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